I didn't realize RE8 was that fucking bad. It's the only main like game I decided to skip after the ruse cruise of RE7.
The series has always been hammy, even into the Gamecube generation. But, there was always a real air of seriousness without being so far up it's own ass. It's now an imposter series that is RE in name only. RE7 was a turducken of every America horror film ever made and none of them were remotely RE. By the time I got to the boat, I knew this shit wasn't getting any better.
I'm not kidding when I call RE8 'Van Helsing'.
You go into an isolated European village, fight through werewolves (the game literally calls them Lycans, and implies (though it's fucking impossible) it's spread by biting or scratching), go to a vampire mansion, fight a vampire, then go fight possessed dolls (which would be a ghost in this metaphor), go fight a fishman, then go into Frankenstein's castle, fight a bunch of Frankenstein's monsters (including one that's literally just a propeller with legs), then fight the doctor in a low-key mech fight. Finally, you find out you've been guided along by a witch, who, and this is no metaphor, kidnapped your daughter, cut her into pieces, then reassembled her, because a mushroom that her daughter died near eats the souls of those that die near it ('absorbs the consciousness and memories', as the game puts it) and she thinks that because Ethan is now a fungus (turns out he died when Jack 'welcomed him to the family', and Evie brought him back which made him into a mold monster, TOTALLY EXPLAINING why the juice works), his fungus baby will be a better host for her dead childs spirit.
It doesn't work, and so she transforms into a demon, and you shoot her. End game.
Oh, and, I forgot, all of these events are literally foreshadowed in a story book at the beginning of the game.
Watch a playthrough or Youtube movie of it sometime, it's really fucking painful, but skipping the actually half decent gameplay will make it a bit better.
Also, the entire 'CHRIS IS EVIL!?' twist is a total non-issue. Turns out he just forgot how to say 'hey, bad shit's going down, I'm here to help.'
Edit: Oh yeah, they also retcon the shit out of 5, by saying that the Witch was actually a super, amazing scientist, and taught Spencer everything he knows, and a random white and red Umbrella carving is why Umbrella is what it is. So, enjoy that plot raping.